Word: roles
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Conference on Alternative State and Local Policies: D.C.-based, does research and coordination for leftist public policy, tremendous resource publications and listings of left organizations; program emphasis on role of left public officials like Byron Dorgan, North Dakota tax commissioner, and Sam Brown, now head of ACTION and former Colorado state treasurer...
Giamatti found himself a man without his profession when school started up this fall. The forty-year-old Renaissance literature scholar muses over his dilemma. He doesn't sit around feeling sorry for himself..."much," but he talks endlessly about teaching, which he misses profoundly. In his new role as a university president, Giamatti feels he has lost "the possibility for completion--the kind of purposeful wandering that teaching is like, in some sense of the word." He goes on to explain: "Classes have a rhythm, the semester has a rhythm. A piece of work has a rhythm...
...role models you see are the heavyduty, high-powered academic types," Mullan said. "You don't see much of Old Doc Jones along Longwood Avenue," he added...
With the political scientist's zeal for systematizing and defining our political intuitions, Burns modestly attempts to establish a "school of leadership." His purpose is no less than to develop a set of "standards for assessing past, present and potential leaders," and to explain the role of human beings in history. However, given the gargantuan size of his undertaking, the book's failure to meet the high expectations raised in the prologue and Part One does not entirely negate its contribution to our common fund of knowledge on the subject...
Burns's standards of leadership are provocative, but inadequate both in theory and historical applications. Leaders will be beloved by the "bar of history" because they are moral and successful, but Burns neglects the role of human interaction--between the leader and the led--in his theory of human leadership. He lets the historian's job of separating the good from the evil take precedence over helping us to understand how the relationship between the leader and the led changes peoples' lives for better or worse...